H2O: Just Add Water

Rated for: Not sure yet if its going to change

Genre: Adventure, Friendship, Family, Romance

Fandom/Universe: Just Add Water H2O

Characters: Emma Gilbert / Ash Dove, OC's

Pairings: Emma / Ash, Cleo / Lewis

Spoilers/Warning:

Disclaimer: H2O and all related characters are the creation of Australian TV and the producers and OC's are all ME. No infringement intended.

Summary: Takes place after the original trio graduate, go to college and start living their lives separate from each other. There's a new moon pool and a secret to be discovered here.

Status: In-Progress

9 First Moon and The Mermaid

The boat house worries both girls simply because they are surrounded by water and no place to hide their tails while Tobías is around.

"So…" Davys looks around at the bedroom they're going to share. "Did we have to give up the house so soon?"

"We had two more days, Dad." Sofí adds. They've set their bags on the beds, both girls looking at Tobías.

"No point in staying there." He shrugs. "Besides, this is our home- or it will be while I finish my work on the island." He smiles. "Don't worry girls, there will be a proper house when I start at the University."

Sofí bites her lip, glancing at Davys from the corner of her eye as Tobías leaves them to unpack. She hasn't broached the subject of moving in together like her Dad had asked her to do.

"Great." Davys grumbles and starts pulling clothes from her bag. "How are we supposed keep it a secret now?"

"We'll figure it out." Sofí assures and starts to unpack.

"Did you see the bathroom?" Davys scowls. "The one without a tub."

"Yeah, that's going to be a problem." Sofí sighs. It won't be easy to shower with their tails and neither of the bathrooms had a tub.

"No shit." Davys glares at her clothes and tosses everything on the bed cursing softly before storming out of the boat house.

"Great." Sofí plops down on her bed and looks around the room without really seeing it. She thinks of what Tobías said about her aunt and the way Davys' life is. Some of the things Davys snapped at her about… about her school and calling her 'princess'…. So maybe a little resentment is understandable. But it still isn't Sofí's fault their lives are different and she shouldn't have to feel bad about it.

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Their first night on the boathouse, both girls get caught by the thrall of their first moon. Davys dives over the side without any complaint or mention of sharks. Sofí right behind her, not interested in teasing her about it.

They swim out to the moon pool entering through the same underwater tunnel that Davys had vehemently refused to even enter the night they got lost.

The bubbles don't scare them this time and the moon slowly makes its way across the opening above until it passes.

Davys blinks. "What was that?" she wonders softly.

"Hmm?" Sofí slowly turns, her eyes taking in the cave and the soft glow of the rocks.

"Let's go." Davys frowns, her mind not really focusing on anything except for the calm she feels and the freedom of being in the water gives her.

"Not home." Sofí protests mildly. "Not yet."

"I want to swim." Davys states then ducks under the water and disappears.

Sofí's right behind her, grinning.

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They've noticed the change. How Sofí has no problem calling up a breeze whenever she wants. She wasn't happy when Tobías asked her to defrost the tiny freezer but then it had been her fault it had become a block of ice. All she had wanted was to make it colder…

It wasn't as bad as Davys almost torching the little Bar-B-Q pit trying to light the coal. So they both agreed no more midnight swims to the pool.

But that didn't mean they couldn't go out to explore during the day.

"Finally!" Sofí grins. They dive in with barely a note scribble to let Tobías know they've gone out.

Its Sofí who points out interesting sea life and Davys is less and less concerned about her fear of sharks. She's way faster than any shark- Jaws or not.

The flash of a tail a dark gold grabs Davys attention and she's quick to follow it. What she finds is not at all what she was expecting.

'Mermaids aren't real.' She thinks but the mermaid staring back at her is just as surprised to see her. They slowly swim to the surface never breaking their eye contact.

"You're blue."

Davys blinks. "You're gold."

The mermaid smiles. "I've never seen one like you."

"I've never seen a mermaid." Davys reveals. "You're real then? I mean…"

"I'm Emma." She laughs and then spots Sofí as she comes up to their left. "You're blue too!"

"You're a mermaid!" Sofí exclaims.

"That's my cousin." Davys rolls her eyes. "She's always pointing out the obvious, annoyingly correcting grammar-. Hey!" she protests as a splash of water ducks her under.

"You manipulate water!" Emma gasps still smiling. She splashes some up and freezes the drops that plonk into the ocean between them.

"Sofí!" Davys glares coming up.

"She can freeze water." Sofí points at Emma. "So… are you-were you … born a mermaid?"

"No." Emma replies, her gaze bouncing between the girls. "Were you?"

"Nope, but I blame her for my tail." Davys points at Sofí who shakes her head.

"If you weren't born a mermaid then how?" Sofí wonders. "And why are you a different color? Are there more mermaids? Are we all different colors?"

"Let her speak." Davys glares at her cousin.

Emma has questions too but bobbing in the middle of the ocean isn't safe for them.

"Easy," Sofí shrugs. "We know a place."

"What?" Davys frowns. "We said we weren't going back there?!"

"At night." Sofí points out. "We have plenty of time before the sun sets."

"NO." Davys crosses her arms. "I'm not going."

"Ok, I'll fill you in later." Sofí smirks.

"Go where?" Emma wonders.

"To the place we got out tails." Davys glowers at her cousin.

"A moon pool?" Emma's excited at the prospect of finding another one. "There's one here?"

"Yes, on the Saluwesi island." Sofí's brow furrows. "Are there other places like that?"

"Yes, well there was." Emma quickly corrects. "My friends and I, we fell into a moon pool on Mako island. That's how we became mermaids."

"Where are your friends?" Davys looks around hoping they aren't far. She hopes they have a way of fixing this.

"We should go to the moon pool." Emma urges. "It's alright in the day. I'm guessing you felt the moon thrall…?"

"Yeah, a few nights ago." Sofí frowns. "You know a lot more than either of us-, come on, Davys." She looks at her cousin who finally nods and the three head to their moon pool.

Emma notices right away that's it different from the one on Mako island. This one is larger- wider and longer, the crater at the top isn't so high up and the walls are peppered with the same meteorite pieces with the natural rock covered in moss, vines and roots.

"I can dry us." Davys offers. Sofí gets them all out using her ability to manipulate the water. Emma is surprised at finding them and with how easily the girls use their gifts.

Once dry Emma still pats her denim shorts but not a drop of water remains. She smiles at the girls, both wearing bathing suits.

"So your friends?" Davys questions.

"How does this work?" Sofí jumps in.

"The Moon Pool was created when a comet that crashed on earth formed Mako island. A few years ago my friends and I were in the pol when the moon passed over. The water bubbled up around us…we had no idea. We were very surprised the next day." Emma grinned remembering their own discovery of the tails.

"Oh," Sofí sighs rolling her eyes. "We totally get that. I dove into our pool then next afternoon and got my tail."

"She was screaming like a lunatic." Davys adds.

"Like you didn't." Sofí scoffs.

"I tipped over in the shower." Davys scowls remembering.

"I think we all have our surprising stories. Rikki actually ran through sprinklers in the middle of the day." Emma reveals with a smile though at the time it hadn't been funny.

"Is she nuts?" Davys frowns.

"She obviously didn't know." Sofí shushes. "Is the Mako pool the original moon pool? Are there others that you know of? And what's the purpose? I mean, why are we mermaids? Because I've been thinking about this and it doesn't seem-."

"Shut. Up." Davys cuts in. "You cant get answers if you don't let her answer."

"Its alright. We had a lot of questions too. We don't have too many more answers now but Lewis- he's normal- oh! Not that we aren't." she's quick to assure.

"Oh my God." Davys sighs rolling her eyes though she laughs. "You two… look, I just want to know how to get rid of it. Can we?"

Emma's silent for a long moment, her expression confused and a little sad. "You don't want to be a mermaid?"

"Well," Davys looks from Sofí to Emma, her brow furrowed. What she wants is not to get dissected or experimented on because if it weren't for that she really wouldn't mind her mermaid tail. "I'm… its dangerous. If people found out- do any of us want to be locked up in some laboratory?"

"Davys, they've obviously been mermaids a lot longer than us and they haven't been caught or experimented on." Sofí scowls then turns to Emma. "You haven't right?"

"No." Emma assures and Sofí draws a relieved breath. "If you really don't want to be a mermaid you don't have to. You can give it up, just wait for the next moon that coincides with the planetary alignment that gave you your tails…" she shrugs.

"Wait, is that a permanent thing or …" Sofí frowns. "Because we've been in the moon pool twice and we're still mermaids."

Emma explains about the moon pool and the lunar phases. She tells them about Cleo, Rikki and Bella but there's not enough time to tell them everything.

"I think we all have to get home." Emma concedes when the cave noticeably darkens. "If you like, tomorrow you can come to my home. We can talk there."

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